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p.2 #16 · p.2 #16 · Asahi Pentax Super-Multi-Coated Takumar 50mm f:1.4 | |
ebookman wrote:
This is a wonderful old lens... The lens is very Zeiss like to me.
Yes, i agree it is a lens with beautiful rendering. The color, contrast, saturation and tonal gradation are all wonderful. But after 13 years of shooting Pentax glass through the 70s (Spotmatic, MX, LX, 67) followed by 20 years of Leica (M3, M6, R4S) followed by 5 years of Contax before going digital I do not find the lens at all like Zeiss. To me, Pentax has always produced lenses more Leica-like. Not in the same league as Leica but more similar to Leica than most other lenses I have used. The first words out of my mouth after looking with awe at the first Kodachromes out of my M3 and Tele-Elmarit 90 were "Man, those Pentax lenses are good!". I still use SMC Takumar 1.4/50, 1.8/55, Super-Takumar 2.8/105 and SMCPM 1.4/50. I like Zeiss lenses very much, but I do not find the Pentax lenses I have used to be like them.
Excellent images, by the way! ☺
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